Efficient Electrification at Epri August 2018 Newsletter
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EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION AT EPRI AUGUST 2018 NEWSLETTER Efficient electrification is about innovation. It’s about creative solutions that benefit a broad range of stakeholders–utility customers, utilities, private industry, and society. This issue of Efficient Electrification highlights a few of the many innovative solutions that industry leaders are proposing: • To help customers learn about the benefits of using electricity and make more informed energy choices, American Electric Power (AEP) recently launched its Energy Conversion Hub. • To facilitate coordinated planning among energy and water utilities, the Water Resource Foundation is pioneering an innovative approach using a competitive tournament. • EPRI is demonstrating an innovative, low-cost solution to end-use monitoring and control called the energy management circuit breaker. • In its Electrification Futures Study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examines how potential electrification could transform the U.S. energy system. Learn about the key findings of the most recent report. • Global experts from utilities, private industry, regulators, EPRI, and others will cover many “big ideas” planned for the Electrification 2018 Conference plenary sessions. You will hear much more about innovative solutions in the many keynote talks, technical sessions, and exhibits at the upcoming Electrification 2018 International Conference & Exposition, August 20–23, 2018, in Long Beach, California. Remember to check out the list of recent news, events, and EPRI resources at the end of Efficient Electrification–a compilation of electrification- related information assembled in one place. Thank you for reading, and we hope to see you in Long Beach. Arshad Mansoor Rob Chapman Senior Vice President, Vice President, Research and Development Energy and Environment TABLE OF CONTENTS Electrification 2018 International Conference and Exposition EPRI is bringing together customers, manufacturers, utilities, regulators and policymakers at ELECTRIFICATION 2018… the first international conference and exposition exploring efficient electrification around the world. ELECTRIFICATION IN ACTION AEP Releases its Energy Conversion Hub American Electric Power (AEP) recently launched its Energy Conversion Hub to help customers learn the benefits of using electricity and make informed energy choices. The Hub is a key part of AEP’s new Energy Conversion program for commercial and industrial customers. It’s also an important step the Columbus, Ohio-based company is taking to lead and innovate in the energy industry. “We want the Energy Conversion Hub to be a one-stop shop for customers to understand and learn the many uses and success stories associated with choosing electricity,” says Teri Kerrigan, Director of Strategic Marketing. “AEP has a great opportunity to lead the energy conversion conversation that so many of our customers are having,” she said. AEP’s Energy Conversion Hub: • Provides AEP customers easy access to a portal of useful, fact-based information. • Enables AEP to play a trusted role in industry news in a searchable and public space. AEP initially chose four solutions with the potential to provide customers the largest cost savings: • Electric forklifts • Electric pipeline compression • Induction heating for surface treatment • Infrared curing and drying For each solution, the Hub offers information about technical and cost-savings benefits, including: • A calculator to help companies predict savings by converting to electricity • Success stories from AEP’s service territory • Blog posts about the four key solutions mentioned above Images used with the permission of American Electric Power ELECTRIFICATION IN ACTION AEP is evaluating more technologies and market opportunities. The company plans to add these to the Hub in the future. For American Electric Power at Electrification 2018 more information, contact Teri Kerrigan. In addition to being a Platinum-level sponsor and exhibitor at the upcoming Electrification 2018 conference, AEP executives are contributing to a number of conference technical sessions in Long Beach: • Jeff Lehman, AEP Customer Energy Solutions Lead, will speak at the pre-conference electric transportation workshop on Monday, August 20. • Bud Clark, AEP National Account Executive, will give a talk on industrial and process heating on Tuesday, August 21. • Mark McCullough, AEP Executive Vice President of Generation, will discuss industrial game changers on Teri Kerrigan is the Director of Strategic Marketing at American Wednesday, August 22. Electric Power, where she leads strategic marketing programs • Bruce Evans, AEP Senior Vice President and Chief to deliver new and innovative energy solutions to customers. Customer Officer, will share insights on “Breaking Kerrigan joined AEP in April 2017. Prior to joining AEP, she Through with the Customer” on Wednesday, August held marketing and management positions at AAA Auto Club 22. South, AAA Ohio, and AAA Club Partners. She earned a • Julie Sloat, President and Chief Operating Officer Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from of AEP Ohio, will speak on Thursday, August 23 the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. She is a member of about “Electrification: The Key to Unlocking Smart the American Marketing Association, National Association of Communities.” Advertisers, and the Women’s International Network of Utility Professionals. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT Optimizing the Energy-Water Nexus Energy development can require significant amounts of water. The concept for the tournament was based on the Invitational Development applications include thermoelectric cooling, Drought Tournament developed at the Science and Technology hydropower, oil and natural gas extraction, coal production/ Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. mining, biomass production, fuel refining, and more. Wider use of the tournament approach could create Conversely, water applications can require significant amounts opportunities for focusing infrastructure design and investment of energy. These applications include public water treatment toward solutions that simultaneously address a range of and distribution, wastewater treatment, and conveyance and emerging challenges, including: pumping of water for irrigation. • Uncertain water futures This integrated nature of water and energy uses and networks • Rising energy costs is commonly referred to as the energy-water nexus. In recent • The need for alternative water and energy supplies years, the Water Research Foundation (WRF), UC Davis, EPRI, • The need to simultaneously adapt to and mitigate the and other organizations examined the topic in depth. One effects of climate variability focus of this work is the integration of water utility and electric UC Davis: Multi-Sector Water, Water/Energy Conservation utility planning to make the best use of both resources. But how A second project demonstrated that energy saved through can electric and water utilities coordinate efforts to improve drought (water) conservation measures can be substantial and management of these finite resources? cost effective. During recent droughts in California, commercial and residential water customers achieved significant reductions in water use through various incentive and conservation programs. UC Davis researchers used models and other estimates of imbedded energy in water systems, which were then used to estimate the energy conservation associated with that water conservation. The UC Davis research showed that water conservation during the California drought achieved 11% more energy conservation than all the energy efficiency programs that investor-owned, California electric utilities Competitive Tournament for Integrated Water/Electric Utility implemented, and at levelized costs that were among the Planning lowest. This energy conservation also resulted in lower CO2 The WRF pioneered an innovative approach based on a and criteria pollutant emissions. competitive tournament to foster coordinated planning. The idea is to gather representatives from water and electric utilities and other stakeholders in the same room, and work through hypothetical integrated planning scenarios. In October 2014, WRF demonstrated this approach by convening the Joint Water and Electric Utility Planning Tournament in Denver, Colorado. Teams developed realistic integrated plans and prioritized options for water and electric utilities for given scenarios. The teams then scored each other’s plans on their ability to meet scenario goals. The team with the highest score won. WRF conducted the tournament as part of its project 4469 on Water and Electric Utility Integrated Planning, led by Steve Conrad of Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia and Steven Kenway of the University of Queensland. Images used with the permission of University Of California—Davis SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT Next Steps EPRI, WRF, and several collaborating organizations are exploring a series of energy-water integrated planning tournaments that will support multi-disciplinary teams from utilities, regulators, policymakers, and other stakeholders in a competition for the best integrated regional strategy. The teams will: • Analyze, present, and score each strategy proposal to identify the leading strategies for each region. • Conduct economic analyses to examine the costs of implementing water and energy management projects and the potential benefits to utilities, communities, and ecosystems. • Identify